Best Run of 4 Songs
Best Run of 4 Songs
Hey! I was combing through old threads and found one mentioning the best run of four songs on album, and thought this could be a fun thread! So I was just wondering, what are your favorite sets of four consecutive songs on albums? As an example, here’s two of my favorites:
Portishead-Dummy: Tracks 2-5
Sour Times-Strangers-It Could Be Sweet-Wandering Star
(Dummy is also my favorite album of all-time)
The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Tracks 1-4
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band-With a Little Help From My Friends-Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds-Getting Better
So what are your favorites?
Portishead-Dummy: Tracks 2-5
Sour Times-Strangers-It Could Be Sweet-Wandering Star
(Dummy is also my favorite album of all-time)
The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Tracks 1-4
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band-With a Little Help From My Friends-Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds-Getting Better
So what are your favorites?
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Here are some of mine:
HERE'S LITTLE RICHARD
A5 Baby
A6 Slippin' and Slidin
B1 Long Tall Sally
B2 Miss Ann
THIS IS FATS DOMINO
A4 Blue Monday
A5 So Long
A6 La La
B1 Troubles of My Own
BO DIDDLEY
A1 Bo Diddley
A2 I'm a Man
A3 Bring It to Jerome
A4 Before You Accuse Me
COSMO'S FACTORY
A2 Before You Accuse Me
A3 Travelin' Band
A4 Ooby Dooby
A5 Lookin' Out My Back Door
THE CHIRPING CRICKETS
A1 Oh, Boy!
A2 Not Fade Away
A3 You've Got Love
A4 Maybe Baby
JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO
A1 Honey Hush
A2 Lonesome Train
A3 Sweet Love on My Mind
A4 Rock Billy Boogie
CARL PERKINS DANCE ALBUM
B3 Everybody's Tryin' to Be My Baby
B4 Matchbox
B5 Your True Love
B6 Boppin' the Blues
SPANIELS - GOODNITE, IT"S TIME TO GO
A7 You Gave Me Peace of Mind
B1 Baby It's You
B2 I Need Your Kisses
B3 Let's Make Up
HERE'S LITTLE RICHARD
A5 Baby
A6 Slippin' and Slidin
B1 Long Tall Sally
B2 Miss Ann
THIS IS FATS DOMINO
A4 Blue Monday
A5 So Long
A6 La La
B1 Troubles of My Own
BO DIDDLEY
A1 Bo Diddley
A2 I'm a Man
A3 Bring It to Jerome
A4 Before You Accuse Me
COSMO'S FACTORY
A2 Before You Accuse Me
A3 Travelin' Band
A4 Ooby Dooby
A5 Lookin' Out My Back Door
THE CHIRPING CRICKETS
A1 Oh, Boy!
A2 Not Fade Away
A3 You've Got Love
A4 Maybe Baby
JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO
A1 Honey Hush
A2 Lonesome Train
A3 Sweet Love on My Mind
A4 Rock Billy Boogie
CARL PERKINS DANCE ALBUM
B3 Everybody's Tryin' to Be My Baby
B4 Matchbox
B5 Your True Love
B6 Boppin' the Blues
SPANIELS - GOODNITE, IT"S TIME TO GO
A7 You Gave Me Peace of Mind
B1 Baby It's You
B2 I Need Your Kisses
B3 Let's Make Up
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
My favorite
Arcade Fire - Funeral
6 Crown of Love
7 Wake Up
8 Haiti
9 Rebellion (Lies)
And my second favorite... lol
Arcade Fire - Funeral
7 Wake Up
8 Haiti
9 Rebellion (Lies)
10 In the Back Seat
I don't think that 7-8-9 trio will ever be topped.
Arcade Fire - Funeral
6 Crown of Love
7 Wake Up
8 Haiti
9 Rebellion (Lies)
And my second favorite... lol
Arcade Fire - Funeral
7 Wake Up
8 Haiti
9 Rebellion (Lies)
10 In the Back Seat
I don't think that 7-8-9 trio will ever be topped.
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Kanye West - Jesus Is King
5. On God
6. Everything We Need
7. Water
8. God Is
5. On God
6. Everything We Need
7. Water
8. God Is
I feel like that
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
First four songs of Remain in Light is a fantastic album opener
Born Under Punches
Crosseyed and Painless
the Great Curve
Once in a Lifetime
I really like this one on Art Angels:
Kill vs Maim
Art Angels
Easily
Pin
Born Under Punches
Crosseyed and Painless
the Great Curve
Once in a Lifetime
I really like this one on Art Angels:
Kill vs Maim
Art Angels
Easily
Pin
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The first side of Nina Hagen Band's Unbehagen is magnificent:
African Reggae
Alptraum
Wir leben immer... noch (Lucky Number)
Wenn ich ein Junge wär (Live)
African Reggae
Alptraum
Wir leben immer... noch (Lucky Number)
Wenn ich ein Junge wär (Live)
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Lou Reed - Berlin:
Caroline Says II
The Kids
The Bed
Sad Song
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea:
Two Headed Boy
The Fool
Holland 1945
Communist Daughter
Daydream Nation:
Teen Age Riot
Silver Rocket
The Sprawl
Cross The Breeze
Caroline Says II
The Kids
The Bed
Sad Song
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea:
Two Headed Boy
The Fool
Holland 1945
Communist Daughter
Daydream Nation:
Teen Age Riot
Silver Rocket
The Sprawl
Cross The Breeze
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Not one of your most surprising choices but it's still among the best closing runs of an album, love how Rebellion barges in on the end of Haïti especially!
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual:
Money Changes Everything
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
When You Were Mine
Time After Time
Haim - Days Are Gone:
Falling
Forever
The Wire
If I Could Change Your Mind
Björk - Homogenic:
Hunter
Jóga
Unravel
Bachelorette
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush:
Tell Me Why
After the Gold Rush
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Southern Man
Money Changes Everything
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
When You Were Mine
Time After Time
Haim - Days Are Gone:
Falling
Forever
The Wire
If I Could Change Your Mind
Björk - Homogenic:
Hunter
Jóga
Unravel
Bachelorette
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush:
Tell Me Why
After the Gold Rush
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Southern Man
Splish splash, I was raking in the cash
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Some random albums with amazing four song runs...
The Velvet Underground & Nico:
Sunday Morning
I'm Waiting for the Man
Femme Fatale
Venus In Furs
Hot Fuss:
Mr. Brightside
Smile Like You Mean It
Somebody Told Me
All These Things That I've Done
Mezzanine:
Angel
Risingson
Teardrop
Inertia Creeps
Teen Dream:
Zebra
Silver Soul
Norway
Walk in the Park
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars:
Five Years
Soul Love
Moonage Daydream
Starman
The Velvet Underground & Nico:
Sunday Morning
I'm Waiting for the Man
Femme Fatale
Venus In Furs
Hot Fuss:
Mr. Brightside
Smile Like You Mean It
Somebody Told Me
All These Things That I've Done
Mezzanine:
Angel
Risingson
Teardrop
Inertia Creeps
Teen Dream:
Zebra
Silver Soul
Norway
Walk in the Park
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars:
Five Years
Soul Love
Moonage Daydream
Starman
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
I love this idea. My initial though was the b-side of Bringing It All Back Home:
Mr. Tambourine Man
Gates of Eden
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
After looking through the my favorite albums for inspiration, I think my original instinct was right, but here are some of my other favorites:
Led Zeppelin IV
Black Dog
Rock and Roll
The Battle of Evermore
Stairway to Heaven
Axis: Bold as Love
Little Wing
If 6 Was 9
You Got Me Floatin'
Castles Made of Sand
Rumours
Dreams
Never Going Back Again
Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way
good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Good Kid
m.A.A.d. City
Swimming Pools (Drank)
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Venus In Furs
Run, Run, Run
All Tomorrow's Parties
Heroin
Blue has a run of five
California
This Flight Tonight
River
A Case of You
The Last Time I Saw Richard
The Hounds of Love would also be on here if not for "Mother Stands For Comfort"
Mr. Tambourine Man
Gates of Eden
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
After looking through the my favorite albums for inspiration, I think my original instinct was right, but here are some of my other favorites:
Led Zeppelin IV
Black Dog
Rock and Roll
The Battle of Evermore
Stairway to Heaven
Axis: Bold as Love
Little Wing
If 6 Was 9
You Got Me Floatin'
Castles Made of Sand
Rumours
Dreams
Never Going Back Again
Don't Stop
Go Your Own Way
good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Good Kid
m.A.A.d. City
Swimming Pools (Drank)
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Venus In Furs
Run, Run, Run
All Tomorrow's Parties
Heroin
Blue has a run of five
California
This Flight Tonight
River
A Case of You
The Last Time I Saw Richard
The Hounds of Love would also be on here if not for "Mother Stands For Comfort"
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Some others worthy of consideration
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Candle in the Wind
Bennie and the Jets
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
Buddy Holly
Undone (The Sweater Song)
Surf Wax America
Say It Ain't So
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
In My Place
God Put a Smile on Your Face
The Scientist
Clocks
There are also a bunch of amazing runs of five, where you need to decide which track to snub, like whether to exclude Karma Police or Paranoid Android on OK Computer, or Even Flow or Jeremy on Ten, or All of the Lights or Runaway on MBDTF.
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With or Without You
Bullet the Blue Sky
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Candle in the Wind
Bennie and the Jets
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
Buddy Holly
Undone (The Sweater Song)
Surf Wax America
Say It Ain't So
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
In My Place
God Put a Smile on Your Face
The Scientist
Clocks
There are also a bunch of amazing runs of five, where you need to decide which track to snub, like whether to exclude Karma Police or Paranoid Android on OK Computer, or Even Flow or Jeremy on Ten, or All of the Lights or Runaway on MBDTF.
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The other closing quartet that came first to mind for me was Out of Time:
08| Half a World Away
09| Texarkana
10| Country Feedback
11| Me in Honey
Restricting myself to one further R.E.M. run, which was nearly the start of Lifes Rich Pageant but Reckoning can't be beat:
01| Harborcoat
02| 7 Chinese Brothers
03| So. Central Rain
04| Pretty Persuasion
Again, I could've gone with the killer beginning of Kaya or the backloaded Exodus but I decided to plump for the midsection madness of Natty Dread:
03| Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
04| Rebel Music (3 o'clock Roadblock)
05| So Jah Seh
06| Natty Dread
The hit-stuffed salvo of Kala:
01| Bamboo Banga
02| Bird Flu
03| Boyz
04| Jimmy
More rap albums would get here if not for the skits and interludes of some. Ready to Die has no shortage of these but also makes room for:
02| Things Done Changed
03| Gimme the Loot
04| Machine Gun Funk
05| Warning
One that I used to listen to as a block of 4 was the finale of I'm Wide Awake It's Morning. Before I fell in love with the rest of the album, I played these on repeat:
07| Another Travelin' Song
08| Land Locked Blues
09| Poison Oak
10| Road to Joy
I now prefer the triptych of We Are Nowhere-Old Soul Song-Lua but neither track either side (At the Bottom of Everything or Train under Water) can fully take the weight.
Similarly, three of the greatest tunes of any genre appear on the second side of The Number of the Beast but Gangland isn't quite their equal.
I would also say the first four (of 5) parts of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven's Static (2nd) side if you count each movement separately, just for how they flow:
05| Terrible Canyons of Static
06| Atomic Clock
07| Chart #3
08| World Police and Friendly Fire
08| Half a World Away
09| Texarkana
10| Country Feedback
11| Me in Honey
Restricting myself to one further R.E.M. run, which was nearly the start of Lifes Rich Pageant but Reckoning can't be beat:
01| Harborcoat
02| 7 Chinese Brothers
03| So. Central Rain
04| Pretty Persuasion
Again, I could've gone with the killer beginning of Kaya or the backloaded Exodus but I decided to plump for the midsection madness of Natty Dread:
03| Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
04| Rebel Music (3 o'clock Roadblock)
05| So Jah Seh
06| Natty Dread
The hit-stuffed salvo of Kala:
01| Bamboo Banga
02| Bird Flu
03| Boyz
04| Jimmy
More rap albums would get here if not for the skits and interludes of some. Ready to Die has no shortage of these but also makes room for:
02| Things Done Changed
03| Gimme the Loot
04| Machine Gun Funk
05| Warning
One that I used to listen to as a block of 4 was the finale of I'm Wide Awake It's Morning. Before I fell in love with the rest of the album, I played these on repeat:
07| Another Travelin' Song
08| Land Locked Blues
09| Poison Oak
10| Road to Joy
I now prefer the triptych of We Are Nowhere-Old Soul Song-Lua but neither track either side (At the Bottom of Everything or Train under Water) can fully take the weight.
Similarly, three of the greatest tunes of any genre appear on the second side of The Number of the Beast but Gangland isn't quite their equal.
I would also say the first four (of 5) parts of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven's Static (2nd) side if you count each movement separately, just for how they flow:
05| Terrible Canyons of Static
06| Atomic Clock
07| Chart #3
08| World Police and Friendly Fire
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Thinking about it, I’m gonna through in:
Sound of Silver
Time to Get Away
North American Scum
Someone Great
All My Friends
This Is Happening
Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk Girls
One Touch
All I Want
Sorry, but I’m a big LCD Soundsystem fan, and I also think I like Time to Get Away, Drunk Girls, and One Touch more than most people do. Also, I looked long and hard at Doolittle by the Pixies and just couldn’t find a combination of four in a row I was super passionate about. The four songs I really love, Debaser, Wave of Mutilation, Here Comes Your Man, and Monkey Gone to Heaven are too spread out and the songs between are just not great to me. I don’t mind I Bleed, but Mr. Grieves, Tame, and Dead just never struck a chord. Still one of my top 20 or so albums though.
Sound of Silver
Time to Get Away
North American Scum
Someone Great
All My Friends
This Is Happening
Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk Girls
One Touch
All I Want
Sorry, but I’m a big LCD Soundsystem fan, and I also think I like Time to Get Away, Drunk Girls, and One Touch more than most people do. Also, I looked long and hard at Doolittle by the Pixies and just couldn’t find a combination of four in a row I was super passionate about. The four songs I really love, Debaser, Wave of Mutilation, Here Comes Your Man, and Monkey Gone to Heaven are too spread out and the songs between are just not great to me. I don’t mind I Bleed, but Mr. Grieves, Tame, and Dead just never struck a chord. Still one of my top 20 or so albums though.
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Abbey Road (my favorite album of all time)
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Who's Next (2)
Getting In Tune
Goin' Mobile
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
Something/Anything? (3)
I Saw the Light
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Wolfman Jack
Cold Morning Light
Dark Side of the Moon (4)
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Our Favourite Shop (7)
The Lodger's
Luck
With Everything to Lose
Shout to the Top
Utopia (8)
Utopia Theme
Freak Parade
Freedom Fighters
The Ikon
Hermit of Mink Hollow (11)
You Cried Wolf
Lucky Guy
Out of Control
Fade Away
Aja (12)
Aja
Deacon Blues
Peg
Home At Last
Talking Book (13) - an 8 song streak - any 4 including Superstition will work, but the first four is my favorite run and the last 4 after Superstition are also a great run of 4 songs:
You and I
Tuesday Heartbreak
You've Got It Bad Girl
Superstition
Big Brother
Blame It On the Sun
Lookin' for Another Pure Love
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
Pretzel Logic (14)
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Night By Night
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Barrytown
Street Survivors (17) - Any combination of the first 6 songs works great, first four are probably the best 4 in a row
What's Your Name
That Smell
One More Time
I Know A Little
You Got That Right
I Never Dreamed
Can't Buy A Thrill (18) - First six all work, First four are best in a row, 1,2,5 and 6 are the best of the six
Do It Again
Dirty Work
Kings
Midnight Cruiser
Only A Fool Would Say That
Reelin' In the Years
Fragile (19)
Long Distance Runaround
The Fish (Schindleria praematurus)
Mood For a Day
Heart of the Sunrise
Gaucho (20) first four or 2-5 both work
Babylon Sisters
Hey Nineteen
Glamour Profession
Gaucho
Time Out of Mind
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Who's Next (2)
Getting In Tune
Goin' Mobile
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
Something/Anything? (3)
I Saw the Light
It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Wolfman Jack
Cold Morning Light
Dark Side of the Moon (4)
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Our Favourite Shop (7)
The Lodger's
Luck
With Everything to Lose
Shout to the Top
Utopia (8)
Utopia Theme
Freak Parade
Freedom Fighters
The Ikon
Hermit of Mink Hollow (11)
You Cried Wolf
Lucky Guy
Out of Control
Fade Away
Aja (12)
Aja
Deacon Blues
Peg
Home At Last
Talking Book (13) - an 8 song streak - any 4 including Superstition will work, but the first four is my favorite run and the last 4 after Superstition are also a great run of 4 songs:
You and I
Tuesday Heartbreak
You've Got It Bad Girl
Superstition
Big Brother
Blame It On the Sun
Lookin' for Another Pure Love
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
Pretzel Logic (14)
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Night By Night
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Barrytown
Street Survivors (17) - Any combination of the first 6 songs works great, first four are probably the best 4 in a row
What's Your Name
That Smell
One More Time
I Know A Little
You Got That Right
I Never Dreamed
Can't Buy A Thrill (18) - First six all work, First four are best in a row, 1,2,5 and 6 are the best of the six
Do It Again
Dirty Work
Kings
Midnight Cruiser
Only A Fool Would Say That
Reelin' In the Years
Fragile (19)
Long Distance Runaround
The Fish (Schindleria praematurus)
Mood For a Day
Heart of the Sunrise
Gaucho (20) first four or 2-5 both work
Babylon Sisters
Hey Nineteen
Glamour Profession
Gaucho
Time Out of Mind
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
"Wild Packs of Family Dogs"
"Paper Thin Walls"
"I Came as a Rat"
"Lives"
Joni Mitchell - Blue (5 tracks actually)
1. "California" 3:48
2. "This Flight Tonight" 2:50
3. "River" 4:00
4. "A Case of You" 4:20
5. "The Last Time I Saw Richard"
"Wild Packs of Family Dogs"
"Paper Thin Walls"
"I Came as a Rat"
"Lives"
Joni Mitchell - Blue (5 tracks actually)
1. "California" 3:48
2. "This Flight Tonight" 2:50
3. "River" 4:00
4. "A Case of You" 4:20
5. "The Last Time I Saw Richard"
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Air - Moon Safari:
La femme d'argent
Sexy Boy
All I Need
Kelly Watch the Stars
La femme d'argent
Sexy Boy
All I Need
Kelly Watch the Stars
Splish splash, I was raking in the cash
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Nevermind
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom
3. Come as You Are
4. Breed
The Velvet Underground & Nico (could honestly pick a run of any 4 songs on the album)
1. Sunday Morning
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. Femme Fatale
4. Venus in Furs
Born to Run (side 2)
1. Born to Run
2. She's the One
3. Meeting Across the River
4. Jungleland
OK Computer
2. Paranoid Android
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
4. Exit Music (For a Film)
5. Let Down
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. In Bloom
3. Come as You Are
4. Breed
The Velvet Underground & Nico (could honestly pick a run of any 4 songs on the album)
1. Sunday Morning
2. I'm Waiting for the Man
3. Femme Fatale
4. Venus in Furs
Born to Run (side 2)
1. Born to Run
2. She's the One
3. Meeting Across the River
4. Jungleland
OK Computer
2. Paranoid Android
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien
4. Exit Music (For a Film)
5. Let Down
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Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
Candle In The Wind
Bennie And The Jets
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Candle In The Wind
Bennie And The Jets
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Oh yeah, and how could I forget...
Sound of Silver:
North American Scum
Someone Great
All My Friends
Us V Them
Sound of Silver:
North American Scum
Someone Great
All My Friends
Us V Them
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
This is a little addicting. Some of my favorites:
High Violet:
Runaway
Conversation 16
England
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
Strange Mercy:
Chloe In the Afternoon
Cruel
Cheerleader
Surgeon
Hunky Dory:
Changes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Eight Line Poem
Life on Mars?
Velvet Underground:
Pale Blue Eyes
Jesus
Beginning to See the Light
I'm Set Free
Ten:
Alive
Why Go
Black
Jeremy
Life's Rich Pageant:
These Days
Fall on Me
Cuyahoga
Hyena
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill:
Ex-Factor
To Zion
Doo Wop (That Thing)
Superstar
Achtung Baby:
Even Better Than the Real Thing
One
Until the End of the World
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Grace:
Lilac Wine
So Real
Hallelujah
Lover, You Should Have Come Over
Kid A:
Everything in its Right Place
Kid A
The National Anthem
How to Disappear Completely
High Violet:
Runaway
Conversation 16
England
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks
Strange Mercy:
Chloe In the Afternoon
Cruel
Cheerleader
Surgeon
Hunky Dory:
Changes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Eight Line Poem
Life on Mars?
Velvet Underground:
Pale Blue Eyes
Jesus
Beginning to See the Light
I'm Set Free
Ten:
Alive
Why Go
Black
Jeremy
Life's Rich Pageant:
These Days
Fall on Me
Cuyahoga
Hyena
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill:
Ex-Factor
To Zion
Doo Wop (That Thing)
Superstar
Achtung Baby:
Even Better Than the Real Thing
One
Until the End of the World
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Grace:
Lilac Wine
So Real
Hallelujah
Lover, You Should Have Come Over
Kid A:
Everything in its Right Place
Kid A
The National Anthem
How to Disappear Completely
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
This is a great one!Sweepstakes Ron wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:24 pm Air - Moon Safari:
La femme d'argent
Sexy Boy
All I Need
Kelly Watch the Stars
Trying to figure out my top ten right now. Will report back.
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Big fan of this, I'd say Lost Ones to Doo Wop also works. Just thought of Miss E...So Addictive:
03| One Minute Man
04| Lick Shots
05| Get Ur Freak On
06| Scream a.k.a. Itchin'
All I got inside is vacancy!
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Surprisingly enough, right when I saw the title of the discussion I thought about a 5 song stretch, from an album in the bottom part of my all time top 100. The dichotomy between that and the rest of the album might make it pop up more than stretches from my very favorite albums (though actually, a lot of them have their very best songs spread out, preventing a truly great stretch).
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods :
3. What’s Mine Is Yours
4. Jumpers
5. Modern Girl
6. Entertain
7. Rollercoaster
That’s a perfect stretch of rock’n’roll imo, which would make the perfect EP. I like the first couple tracks and the last 3 quite less which so far has prevented the album from getting in my top 50 but those 22 minutes or so are perfect.
The only 5 song stretch that could compete is from my favorite album of all time, Built to Spill’s Perfect From Now On :
1. Randy Described Eternity
2. I Would Hurt a Fly
3. Stop the Show
4. Made-Up Dreams
5. Velvet Waltz
But we have here a couple outros that are not necessary, the 5 songs in The Woods flow into each other better.
Other great 4 song stretches :
Kanye West - The College Dropout (excluding I’ll Fly Away which I’ll consider more as a skit/intro)
4. All Falls Down
6. Spaceship
7. Jesus Walks
8. Never Let Me Down
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial :
2. Vincent
3. Destroyed by Hippie Powers
4. (Joe Gets Kicked out of School for Using) Drugs with Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)
5. Not What I Needed
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
1. The View from the Afternoon
2. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
3. Fake Tales of San Francisco
4. Dancing Shoes
Run the Jewels – RTJ2
1. Jeopardy
2. Oh My Darling Don’t Cry
3. Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1
4. Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)
Also if we are talking about a specific duration, more than a number of songs, my favorite 15 minutes of music might be the Doin’ the Cockroach – Cowboy Dan – Trailer Trash stretch in The Lonesome Crowded West.
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods :
3. What’s Mine Is Yours
4. Jumpers
5. Modern Girl
6. Entertain
7. Rollercoaster
That’s a perfect stretch of rock’n’roll imo, which would make the perfect EP. I like the first couple tracks and the last 3 quite less which so far has prevented the album from getting in my top 50 but those 22 minutes or so are perfect.
The only 5 song stretch that could compete is from my favorite album of all time, Built to Spill’s Perfect From Now On :
1. Randy Described Eternity
2. I Would Hurt a Fly
3. Stop the Show
4. Made-Up Dreams
5. Velvet Waltz
But we have here a couple outros that are not necessary, the 5 songs in The Woods flow into each other better.
Other great 4 song stretches :
Kanye West - The College Dropout (excluding I’ll Fly Away which I’ll consider more as a skit/intro)
4. All Falls Down
6. Spaceship
7. Jesus Walks
8. Never Let Me Down
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial :
2. Vincent
3. Destroyed by Hippie Powers
4. (Joe Gets Kicked out of School for Using) Drugs with Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)
5. Not What I Needed
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
1. The View from the Afternoon
2. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
3. Fake Tales of San Francisco
4. Dancing Shoes
Run the Jewels – RTJ2
1. Jeopardy
2. Oh My Darling Don’t Cry
3. Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1
4. Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)
Also if we are talking about a specific duration, more than a number of songs, my favorite 15 minutes of music might be the Doin’ the Cockroach – Cowboy Dan – Trailer Trash stretch in The Lonesome Crowded West.
Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
I agree, Lost Ones is pretty much just as good as Superstar. I could have gone either way.
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly:
These Walls
u
Alright
For Sale? (Interlude)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico:
Venus In Furs
Run Run Run
All Tomorrow's Parties
Heroin
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein:
Vein
The F-Word
Stress Rap
Battle For Asgard
These Walls
u
Alright
For Sale? (Interlude)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico:
Venus In Furs
Run Run Run
All Tomorrow's Parties
Heroin
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein:
Vein
The F-Word
Stress Rap
Battle For Asgard
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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
Metallica - Master of Puppets
1. Battery
2. Master of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Daft Punk - Discovery
1. One More Time
2. Aerodynamic
3. Digital Love
4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
1. Love Song
2. Machine Gun Etiquette
3. I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
4. Melody Lee
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit
8. C.R.E.A.M.
9. Method Man
10. Protect Ya Neck
Tool - Aenima
1. Stinkfist
2. Eulogy
3. H.
4. Forty Six & 2
1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
Metallica - Master of Puppets
1. Battery
2. Master of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Daft Punk - Discovery
1. One More Time
2. Aerodynamic
3. Digital Love
4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
1. Love Song
2. Machine Gun Etiquette
3. I Just Can’t Be Happy Today
4. Melody Lee
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
7. Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit
8. C.R.E.A.M.
9. Method Man
10. Protect Ya Neck
Tool - Aenima
1. Stinkfist
2. Eulogy
3. H.
4. Forty Six & 2
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain gets my #1 segment of four tracks:
Let's Go Crazy, Take Me With U, The Beautiful Ones, Computer Blue
Here are 10 other albums that haven't been mentioned, as well as the track listing placement of the segment in parentheses:
Tapestry: I Feel the Earth Move, So Far Away, It's Too Late, Home Again (start)
Dookie: Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Pulling Teeth, Basket Case (middle)
Thriller: Thriller, Beat It, Billie Jean, Human Nature (middle)
Saturday Night Fever: Stayin' Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever, More than a Woman (start)
Play: Honey, Find My Baby, Porcelain, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (start)
Horses: Gloria, Redondo Beach, Birdland, Free Money (start)
Section.80: Kush & Corinthians, Blow My High, Ab-Soul's Outro, HiiiPoWeR (end)
Helplessness Blues: Battery Kinzie, The Plains / Bitter Dancer, Helplessness Blues, The Cascades (middle)
Princess Mononoke OST: Adagio of Life and Death 2, Ashitaka and San, Princess Mononoke Theme Song, The Legend of Ashitaka Theme (end)
ABBA: The Album: Eagle, Take a Chance on Me, One Man One Woman, The Name of the Game (start)
Let's Go Crazy, Take Me With U, The Beautiful Ones, Computer Blue
Here are 10 other albums that haven't been mentioned, as well as the track listing placement of the segment in parentheses:
Tapestry: I Feel the Earth Move, So Far Away, It's Too Late, Home Again (start)
Dookie: Longview, Welcome to Paradise, Pulling Teeth, Basket Case (middle)
Thriller: Thriller, Beat It, Billie Jean, Human Nature (middle)
Saturday Night Fever: Stayin' Alive, How Deep is Your Love, Night Fever, More than a Woman (start)
Play: Honey, Find My Baby, Porcelain, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (start)
Horses: Gloria, Redondo Beach, Birdland, Free Money (start)
Section.80: Kush & Corinthians, Blow My High, Ab-Soul's Outro, HiiiPoWeR (end)
Helplessness Blues: Battery Kinzie, The Plains / Bitter Dancer, Helplessness Blues, The Cascades (middle)
Princess Mononoke OST: Adagio of Life and Death 2, Ashitaka and San, Princess Mononoke Theme Song, The Legend of Ashitaka Theme (end)
ABBA: The Album: Eagle, Take a Chance on Me, One Man One Woman, The Name of the Game (start)
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
Just finished ranking the tracks on this, so had to include it here.
Marquee Moon
1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction
4. Marquee Moon
Marquee Moon
1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction
4. Marquee Moon
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
From side two of PET SOUNDS
God Only Knows
I Know There's an Answer
Here Today
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
God Only Knows
I Know There's an Answer
Here Today
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
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Re: Best Run of 4 Songs
A Rush of Blood to the Head
Clocks
The Scientist
In My Place
A Rush of Blood to the Head
The biggest hit single from this Coldplay album is "Clocks".
Abbey Road
I want you (she's so heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Beatles are still the most inspirated English band in the history of music industry. In this album, saw this band to make the music more aggresive than the previous releases.
Aja
Peg
Aja
Deacon Blues
Home at Last
On Steely Dan's previous album, Can't buy a thrill, Donald Fagen feels like unconfident on stage when singing. However, in this album, he bravely lead the vocals in Steely Dan's position even he released his biggest hit single, "I.G.Y.".
Goodbye yellow brick road
Candle in the Wind
Funeral for a friend / Love lies bleeding
Bernie and the jets
Goodbye yellow brick road
Although Elton John is more known for his biggest hit single, "Your Song", Goodbye Yellow Brick Road still the best album in his catalog.
Nevermind
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Come as You Are
In bloom
Breed
Music is universal, although this Nirvana album marks the beginning of Alternative Rock even major labels will drop the 1980s acts during the popularity of this genre, I'm still listening to the 1980s songs by these 1980s acts (like the 1980s-sounded Pop songs, Slow Rock power ballad, retro-typed Synthpop, and others).
Purple Rain
Purple Rain
Let's Go Crazy
Take me with u
The Beautiful Ones
"Purple Rain" become Prince & The Revolution's biggest hit single.
Ten
Alive
Black
Jeremy
Even Flow
One of the best known song from this Pearl Jam album is "Alive".
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time
Breathe
The Great Gig in the Sky
Us and Them
Although Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" become their best known song, The Dark Side of the Moon was also one of their best known albums.
The Joshua Tree
With or Without You
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Where the Streets Have No Name
Bullet the Blue Sky
"With or Without You" become U2's biggest hit single.
Weezer (The Blue Album)
Buddy Holly
Undone (The Sweater Song)
Surf Wax America
Say it ain't so
Beside known for this album which was featuring "Buddy Holly", Weezer is also known for their cover version of Toto's "Africa".
Clocks
The Scientist
In My Place
A Rush of Blood to the Head
The biggest hit single from this Coldplay album is "Clocks".
Abbey Road
I want you (she's so heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Beatles are still the most inspirated English band in the history of music industry. In this album, saw this band to make the music more aggresive than the previous releases.
Aja
Peg
Aja
Deacon Blues
Home at Last
On Steely Dan's previous album, Can't buy a thrill, Donald Fagen feels like unconfident on stage when singing. However, in this album, he bravely lead the vocals in Steely Dan's position even he released his biggest hit single, "I.G.Y.".
Goodbye yellow brick road
Candle in the Wind
Funeral for a friend / Love lies bleeding
Bernie and the jets
Goodbye yellow brick road
Although Elton John is more known for his biggest hit single, "Your Song", Goodbye Yellow Brick Road still the best album in his catalog.
Nevermind
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Come as You Are
In bloom
Breed
Music is universal, although this Nirvana album marks the beginning of Alternative Rock even major labels will drop the 1980s acts during the popularity of this genre, I'm still listening to the 1980s songs by these 1980s acts (like the 1980s-sounded Pop songs, Slow Rock power ballad, retro-typed Synthpop, and others).
Purple Rain
Purple Rain
Let's Go Crazy
Take me with u
The Beautiful Ones
"Purple Rain" become Prince & The Revolution's biggest hit single.
Ten
Alive
Black
Jeremy
Even Flow
One of the best known song from this Pearl Jam album is "Alive".
The Dark Side of the Moon
Time
Breathe
The Great Gig in the Sky
Us and Them
Although Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" become their best known song, The Dark Side of the Moon was also one of their best known albums.
The Joshua Tree
With or Without You
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Where the Streets Have No Name
Bullet the Blue Sky
"With or Without You" become U2's biggest hit single.
Weezer (The Blue Album)
Buddy Holly
Undone (The Sweater Song)
Surf Wax America
Say it ain't so
Beside known for this album which was featuring "Buddy Holly", Weezer is also known for their cover version of Toto's "Africa".
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